On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:33:23PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: > I don't think I posted this before. > > The cursor changes depending what it's over, and if you've got > something like an 1920x1080 screen full of mostly rxvt windows then > most of the time it's an I-beam. That can be hard to spot if you've > looked away or been away. MS Windows, XP at least, has an option to > go to a big cursor if you do something like hold down a ctrl key by > itself for more than 2 seconds. The activating keystroke could be > different but is there an easy way to do that with X? Something so > the application-specified cursor gets overridden temporarily and you > get a cursor that jumps out at you? Big, animated, flashing, > something that doesn't blend into the desktop? Then back to normal > once you let go of that key.
this isn't something X itself does, it's something the desktop environment/WM needs to take care of. GNOME has the locate pointer feature which seems to be accessible through gnome-tweak-tool only [1] and that'll highlight the cursor when you hit Ctrl. Since you're using something else, that WM needs to provide a similar feature but either way, it's not what the X server itself would provide. Alternatively, Cheers, Peter [1] gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer > > I spend about 99% of my time in X these days, there isn't much I'd > change. Window manager of choice is rxvt, OS is OpenBSD. > > Alan > _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s